You'll also need a ritual writing instrument.
"In addition to the scriptural canon," he said, "there were histories, stories, autobiography, poetry, ritual writing, narrative, epics — pretty much any kind of literary output you could imagine.
Two were slight (the circusy "Dance for Burgess," composed for a failed musical starring Burgess Meredith in 1949, and "Tuning Up," a fantasy on an orchestra's tuning ritual (written for the film "Carnegie Hall" in 1947, but not used), and two were substantial (the vocal works, "Étude pour Espace," from 1947, and "Nocturnal," from 1961).
The funeral can be healing, visiting a gravesite can be healing, performing rituals, writing in journals and making pilgrimages can be personally meaningful and healing.
From the Anglo-Saxon period to the early modern, the same verbal formulas appear repeatedly, occasionally alone but most often combined for example, Sator arepo, the Maria peperit (and its variations), exi foras both as spoken rituals and as rituals written and tied to or laid upon the body of the woman in labor.
Different groups form consensus on understandings of different doctrines about The Sacraments, The Triune God (versus Arian Belief concerning God), pastor, order of services, offices of bishop, presbyter and such, deacon, marriage, healing, prophesies, praying to saints, speaking unknown tongues, formalities, rituals, written prayers, or informality, pray as the Spirit of God gives utterance, etc.
In our house, the painful childhood ritual of writing the thank-you note was worsened by the miserable fact that my mother brooked neither crossings out nor the use of Tippex, so each missive went through at least five incarnations before it was passed for posting – tear stains being apparently quite acceptable by way of decoration.
The very act of smoking became a ritual of writing.
During his time in asylum, Smart busied himself with a daily ritual of writing poetry; these lyric fragments eventually formed his Jubilate Agno and A Song to David.
The job industry -- the one that views job searches as the transactional ritual of writing resumes and going on interviews -- is dead.
I was blown away to find that when an Englishman participates in the sad ritual of writing a personal ad, it ends up containing all the wit and complexity of a Noël Coward play.
